ABRP and PCM navi working simultaneously

[PorscheCH]

After reading most threads and notably @tigerbalm effort in this domain, I'm trying to use ABRP from time to time (and have bought a membership to support development). I have noticed that:

- if you activate PCM navigation and after that ABRP navigation on CarPlay usually both continue to work (unlike if you use another CarPlay navi like google maps, likely a ABRP "glitch") - as in the video. this allows you to warm up the battery and have ABRP on the screen
- to get an accurate estimation of the SOC evolution you need to fine tune the reference consumption in the settings (or pay an additional external service, tronity, to give access to your myporsche and feed ABRP with the real consumption. not for me)
- ABRP is little more than a planner (e.g. on CarPlay it doesn't even do rerouting if you make a wrong turn)
- UX/UI are rudimentary, to say the least
- has a huge amount of bugs including that you can't change the "current SOC" while traveling (you could in the app but it doesn't work)

Too bad because it's a good idea especially for mapping charging stations and estimating consumption but the software is inconvenient to use and no one has thought about the UX. Would be glad to hear others thoughts.

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[Max Powers]

I'm convinced this is builtin to CarPlay. I've had this issue for years on a range of cars, independent of the app (Waze, AppleMaps, GoogleMaps, ABRT). They all stop the navigation if the car navigation is set and vice-versa. I wish it wasn't the case but I also kinda of understand Apple's reasoning behind this - what do you do if one nav system tells you to turn one way and another a different way? How many people panic with the situation however ridiculous it may sound, it's the only logic I found to it. I get around this by using a non-CarPlay connected iPad with ABRT.